How to remove a rip off report on Google’s top pages.
Getting a negative listing on sites like rip off report can happen to the most upstanding companies and individuals. All it takes is 15 minutes and anybody can slander your online reputation for the world to see.
Often with these so called ‘consumer complaints sites’, there is no checks and balance. In other words, these sites don’t check the validity of the information that is being posted.. Even if you can prove that the allegations are incorrect, those listings will not be taken down by the admin of the site.
Having a negative listing rank on the first page is a very disturbing situation Most of the time you will not have a clue as to who posted this negative listing.Could this be an actual customer? Was it a person who works for you? Our natural instinct is to fight back and respond to these allegations on those forums. However, a response is the worst thing you can do. Here is why:
Some individuals and companies try to attack this problem by suing sites like ripoff report. In most cases this strategy is not very effective since these consumer complaint sites claim no responsibility for the content that is being posted.
By replying to the negative listing you actually promote the negative listing. Search Engines like Yahoo look at this increased activity as an indication that this post might be relevant and list the URL higher on search engines. Google in particular considers this posting as a sign that there is an interest in this article. In addition to that chances are that the person who posted the negative comments will reply to your comments, which has a tendency to boost the rankings of those listings.
How to remove a rip off report?
Once you have a listing on RipOffReport you cannot get the listing taken down by the administrator. Even if the individual who submitted the post decides to delete the listing. Not even the person who wrote the complaint can actually remove the listing after the fact.
So what is the strategy to suppress the listing?
We are able to remove a Rip Off Report from the first page on relevant search engines. Our strategy involves the following steps.
Step 1: The first step of removing a ripoff report from the top pages involves the creation of new URL’s. Those listings come in the form of micro sites, business profiles, article syndications and press releases, with the purpose to occupy the first page on search engines and displace the negative listings from the top pages on search engines. Most of the tim this technique by itself is not sufficient in removing a Rip Off Report from the first page on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Your positive listings need to be promoted in order to over rank and push down the rip off report.
Level 2: After about 8 weeks many of the new listings should start to appear in the top pages on Google. Depending on the keyword competitiveness some of them have already surpassed the rip off report and therefore pushed the listing downward. However, In order to remove the rip off report from the top page on Google, Yahoo and Bing we promote listings that are below the rip off report. As these listings over rank the rip off report we focus on a new set of positive listings that are not yet above the rip off report until we have a clean first page.
